Fab Five Day 4

Here is my day four House Mouse Card, It is hard to tell in the picture but the green paper in the background is embossed with cuttlebug embossing folder swiss dots. I had a little trouble with this one, I got carried away coloring the ice cream to look like my favorite (mint chocolate chip) with brown stickles as the chocolate chips that I ended up later finding paper to match, my point is still: Copics are great and you can think outside the box when coloring stamps like these.

Fab Five Day 3

Well its Wednesday, Halfway through Fab Five Week! hope you all are enjoying the creative inspiration. Also, all the cards made by the fab five team are on display at Picture This if you are interested in the stamp or any of the product stop in and we can help you find it :)

Fab Five Day 2

Here is my card for Day 2 of Fab Five Week! Im currently just about to start class so I cant chat about it too much ;)
Have a good day bloggers!

Fab 5 Day 1

Heres to another wonderful week of Fab Five Designs, This month we are featureing "House Mouse" Stamps, if you like Copic Markers these are the perfect stamps to invest in. Check out the rest of the Fab Five Girl's Blogs and stay tuned all week for more ideas!

Supplies:
My Minds Eye Paper
White Luster Paper
Copic Markers
Crystal Stickles
White Polka Dot Ribbon

Daddys Girl

I absolutey loved making this page, I was just flipping through my box of pictures and found these two and it was a perfect match, Ive been wanting to use this paper since it came in but just didnt have the perfect pictures to go with it. I love making pages that compare old and new such as this one, I also found it quite interesting on the back of the older picture where Im a little girl with my dad the date was written "October 3, 1993" and the date of the newer picture (our father daughter dance) was October 2, 2010. Exactly 17 years and 1 day apart, how perfect.

Supplies Used:
Bo Bunny Mamma razzi Collection Paper and Tag sheet
Quick Quotes "dad" quote
Cuttlebug cut and emboss die for the letters

Volleyball Page

Here is a page I made over the weekend, it brought back some good memories
from High School specifically Volleyball Season. The pictures are from Freshman year and Senior Year, its crazy to see how our team has grown and changed in these four years.

Bride

Handsome Young Man

It was hard to get a good picture of this page since the colors are so light. This is another page done with My Minds Eye "Lost and Found" paper such as in my last post. Similar to the last post, I used all MY Minds Eye product (paper, letter stickers, and diecut) This page is of Dominic, our Ring Bearer, he was adorable the day of the wedding just like Kaya was, we were greatful to have both of them apart of the wedding. My favortite memory about Dominic this day was him running around telling everybody "Im not your buddy! Im a ring bearer" we could tell he had a fun time being apart of our special day.

Pretty Little Lady

This is a page I made last weekend and our Christmas Party, Ive been itching to get my wedding pictures printed so I could play with this beautiful paper. Miss Kaya was our flower girl, such a cutie she was that day (as always). I made this page with My Minds Eye Paper from the Lost and Found Collection with coordinating diecut and letter stickers, the journaling tag was cut out using spellbinders and the mat was cut with a Martha Stewart edge punch.

Fab 5 Day 5 Guest Designer Amy!!

This is guest designer, Amys, Fab 5!! She used the cute bumble bee stamp with matching "buzzed by" saying. You will have to pop into the store to see our Fab 5 wall with all the cards and products on display.

Todays Card is my favorite, If you know Lisa and I, we are huge Zebra Print Fans, so when the cuttlebug embossing folder pack called "Animal Prints" came into the store, we both flipped out! One issue, neither of us owned a cuttlebug...unbelievable right? we both work at one of the largest scrapbooking/carmaking stores in Wisconsin and dont own a cuttlebug. We pondered buying it anyways and just borrowing the stores bug whenever we wanted to make a card but decided against it. Soon came my Bridal Shower (Animal Print Theme) and Lisa came over with a big bag decorated in stickles and glimmer mist, I opened the bag to find my very own cuttlebug!! I jumped up and down and squealed like a little girl I was so excited, also in the bag (with other various embossing folders) was the beloved animal print bundle, I played with the folders but this is the very first card Ive actually made using them. So when the time came, I walked over to the Judith wall picking out which stamps I would use for Fab Five week and out jumped the cute little zebra and "LIGHTBULB" Zebra Print embossing folder, oh yes! lol

Supplies Used:
Coordinations Paper
Hero Arts Jewels
Judith Stamps: Med. Zebra & Your the best
WeR Memory Keepers Heart Attack Distressing tool
and of course the zebra print embossing folder out of the cuttlebug "Animal Prints" bundle

Fab Five Day 3

Well its Wednesday, half way through our Fab Five Week, I hope you have gotten a lot of new ideas between our blogs. If you havent checked them all out here are the links to my fellow Fab Five Girls:

• http://craftytigertale.blogspot.com/
• http://underacarolinasky.blogspot.com/
• http://annettes-kraftykats.blogspot.com/
• http://limescraparitawithatwist.blogspot.com/
  

Here it is, Day Three, I made this card in mind of a friend who had pneumonia and a double ear infection over winter break, we had all these fun girls nights and shopping trips planned and I only got to see her twice for an accumulative 5 hours or so, and she was still battling her illness, sadly I never got to give this card to her since I had to save its release for today and then it will be on display at Picture This. oh well I guess Ill just have to wait for her to get sick again ;) hopefully it isnt anytime soon!!

It is hard to tell in the picture but the jar is stamped on top of vellum, adhered to a white piece with the bug stamped and colored.

Supplies Used:

Judith Stamps: caught a bug, medium jar, and phooey bug

Basic Grey Paper: Origins "Authentic"

Black and White Carstock

Black Ric Rac Ribbon

Vellum

Black Memento Ink

Fab Five Day Two

Welcome to day two of Fab Five Week! Here is just an example of the "stubby" stamp I talked about in my last post, The "thanks" is a stubby stamp by Judith, I stamped thanks all over the background of the tag, put one strip of My Minds Eye paper that coordinated with the cuttlebug flower and thats it! a simple tag to say thank you.

Fab Five Day One

Good Morning Followers!! Welcome to a brand new week of Fab Five Designs, this month we are featuring Stamps by Judith. I have been running around the house frantically trying to find my laptop charger to post this, I was about to put my sweats on and head out into the winter chill and sweep the snow off my car when I found remembered that my husbands laptop found its way back home, with charger :) So here it is no more waiting!



I decided to start the week of with one of Judiths most popular stamps, "Tree for all Seasons" This little tree is quite addicting, there are tons on "stubby" stamps to decorate your tree, this time I chose something I hadnt seen before, the little girl, cupcake and ice cream cone, inside the card is another one of her stamps, "Sugar and Spice" Hope you Enjoy! Follow the rest of the Fab Five the rest of the week and you will have 25+ new ideas for Judith Stamps!

Hoppy Birthday

hello hello,
Once winter break started I kind of neglected my laptop but here I am back again. This card was made with this cute frog stamp by Hero Arts, it has serious baby shower invitation potential but I decided to use it as a birthday card. "Hoppy Birthday" was spelled out using Just Rite stamp set. Im hoping to get some more posts in this weekend but Paula and I are busy getting ready for the Health and Fitness Expo held at Golds Gym in Eau Claire. This is the second annual expo but the first time "Picture This" will be attending, as far as I know there will be many various vendors from the Eau Claire area setting up booths to show off their stuff. We are very excited with only 3 more days to get ready (the expo is Tuesday night) Hope to see some new faces and educate them about our store!!

Made with Love

Lisa and I put together this cute Christmas present, perfect for your co-workers, or a friend who enjoys the simple gift of creativity from the heart. We started out with a tube from SRM (once these came in the store we couldnt wait to get out hands on them) and dolled it up with some paper from the Basic Grey "Jovial" Collection, (my favorite christmas paper collection for 2010) the mitten and circles are cut out using Spellbinders, the stamp is Amuse from there 2010 winter collection, which I have already found countless possibilities for, since basically everything I make is made with love ;)

Projects with these tubes are endless, we visited the SRM blog: http://srm-stickers.blogspot.com/2010/11/tubes-day-one.html to get some ideas so we cannot take complete credit for this project, this is our version. Im looking forward to a "Girls Night" next wednesday and plan to make one of these for all the girls :)

Vintage Recipe Book Class

Looking for the perfect Christmas present "from the heart"? Make a 6x6 mini book using vintage Graphic 45 paper then just add a few of your favorite recipes. (You can also add more pages on your own) Learn how to distress with ink and use Glossy Accents December 7th 5:30-7pm at Picture This

Last Friday I stayed for the "Scrap 'Till Midnight" at Picture This with some friends...if you havent ever been to one, your missing out! My friend Brittney is starting to get into Scrapbooking, she scrapped some recent pictures, Wedding, hunting, and family. and I made a couple pages and this card. I love Cosmo Cricket, especially this collection, "Girl Friday" the page is full of little squares with cute sayings and pictures on them, you could make about 20 different cards or so using one sheet of paper, I made this one also using pink glitter "thickers" and just rite stamps to spell out "Girls Night" hope you enjoy!

Wedding Card

I was making some wedding invtation samples for a friend and turned this one into a card. My Minds Eye "Lush" Collection.

Crafty Wedding Planner

Its quite aware that my blog has been a bit neglected. Between the Bridal Shower, Bachlorette Party,Scrap Pink, Wedding, Girls Weekend, and The Picture This bus trip last weekend, My Weekends have been pretty much swamped! The good thing is that the wedding planning stress is over, finals and mid-terms will be over tomorrow afternoon and Ill have more time to create. This post Id like to show you all the stuff I made for the wedding. I tried my best to save money by making as much on my own as I could. Starting with our invitations:
They sure were a lot of work, but worth it in the end, I got a ton of compliments and truly felt they turned out as beauriful as I'd hoped.



next was the boutineres (correct my spelling if Im wrong): This was Kevin's (my husband) his was a little bit larger than the rest of the guys' to seperate his as the groom. Not that the Ivory Tux while the rest of the guys wore brown tuxes didnt give it away, I thought the cattail was a cute, different take on a boutinere, and stayed in the "fall theme" we were going for.

This was my bouquet: the flowers and cattails were all bought seperate and we assembled them like so: the rest of the bridesmaids were the same but had all yellow flowers, this was my first time making flower bouquets, I think they turned out quite nice for a first timer ;)


Save The Dates:

Centerpieces, courtesy of Aunt Jayme :)

And last but not least, our card box. I wanted something completely differnt than the traditional "card box" so I called up my grandpa and asked if he could make me a barn box. I painted it will "crackle paint" to give it the rustic look, which is hard to see. and Paula let me use her Copic markers and airbrush system so airbrush the barn also. I think it turned out awesome. I had my bridesmaid Olivia paint our names and the doors on it.


I was very happy with the way everything turned out, and It was by far, the best day of my life, I married my bestfriend and had all my friends and family surrounding and supporting me. It was a beautiful day in Eleva, WI.